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Study of Salts in Water Causing Stir

A research team led by Argonne’s Giulia Galli has gleaned new insights about the structure of salt water by simulating the liquid at the molecular level with the Mira supercomputer, housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.

Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’ – Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal

A research team from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in the structure of an atomically thin (2-D) material possesses a naturally occurring circular rotation.

Applying Machine Learning to the Universe's Mysteries

Physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their collaborators have demonstrated that computers are ready to tackle the universe’s greatest mysteries. The team fed thousands of images from simulated high-energy particle collisions to train computer networks to identify important features.

Sterile neutrino sleuths

The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab is hunting for signs of a possible fourth type of neutrino with three vast detectors.

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SLAC Scientists Investigate How Metal 3-D Printing Can Avoid Producing Flawed Parts

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using X-ray light to observe and understand how the process of making metal parts using three-dimensional (3-D) printing can leave flaws in the finished product – and discover how those flaws can be prevented.

Behind the Scenes: How Fungi Make Nutrients Available to the World

Scientists are researching fungi’s essential role in decomposition, particularly breaking down cell walls in wood.

Silencing Is Golden: Scientists Image Molecules Vital for Gene Regulation

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have gained insight into the molecules in the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 that is involved in “silencing” genes so that they are not “read” by the cellular machinery that decodes genetic information.

Networking, Data Experts Design a Better Portal for Scientific Discovery

A team of networking experts from the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), with the Globus team from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, have designed a new approach – a data portal or science gateway - that makes data sharing faster, more reliable and more secure.

X-Ray Experiments Suggest High Tunability of 2-D Material

Scientists at Berkeley Lab use a new platform, called MAESTRO, to see microscale details in monolayer material’s electronic structure.

Scientists Catch Light Squeezing and Stretching Next-Gen Data Storage Material

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have seen for the first time how atoms in iron-platinum nanoparticles – a next-generation material for magnetic data storage devices – respond extremely rapidly to brief laser flashes.

It All Starts With a ‘Spark’: Berkeley Lab Delivers Injector That Will Drive X-Ray Laser Upgrade

A team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) designed and built a unique version of a device, called an injector gun, that can produce a steady stream of these electron bunches that will ultimately be used to produce brilliant X-ray laser pulses at a rapid-fire rate of up to 1 million per second.

Brian Post: Engineering the Future of Manufacturing

Brian Post came to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory looking for a way to combine his interests in controls engineering and robotics, and he found it at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), where he and his colleagues are revolutionizing 3D-printing with every improvement they make.